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Re: kernel version syntax
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:19:30 -0800
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On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I want to confirm the following assumptions I have about the kernel version
> numbers obtained with 'uname -r'
>
> That, with each release, the version is 2.6.x-<blah-blah-blah> where x is
> fixed for a given release. For instance SL5.x is always 2.6.18 while SL6.x
> is always 2.6.32.  The series of numbers that follow the hyphen is some
> other beastie that is part of the distro and not the original kernel version
> that Linus releases.

Yes, that is correct.

Akemi

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